3.0 Librarian indexing with custom descriptions?

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2 total messages Started by felix.lugo Thu, 29 Oct 1992 04:14

#41

Author: felix.lugo
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 04:14

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	How do I tell Librarian (or ixbuild) to generate description of ascii
files.  In 2.x you could have a <type>-desc file which would take one
argument (the name of the file being indexed) and return a string which
would be taken as the description for that file.  Is this no longer
possible in 3.0?

--Felix

Re: 3.0 Librarian indexing with custom descriptions?

#42

Author: felix.lugo
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:01

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In article <1992Oct29.041411.20415@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) writes:
| 	How do I tell Librarian (or ixbuild) to generate description of ascii
| files.  In 2.x you could have a <type>-desc file which would take one
| argument (the name of the file being indexed) and return a string which
| would be taken as the description for that file.  Is this no longer
| possible in 3.0?
| 
| --Felix
| 

	To answer my own question (OOPS!)...

	Create a "services" file with the following description, where <type>
is the type of file!  Put it under ~/Library/Services (or
/LocalLibrary/Services) and name it <something>.service.  Then logout and
log back in (or enter "make_services" in a Terminal window).

Filter:
Port: NXUNIXSTDIO
Send Type: NXTypedFilenamePboardType:<type>
Return Type: IXFileDescriptionPboardType
Executable: <path-name-to-desc-executable-filter>

--Felix

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